
The Forgotten Sculpture of John B. Flannagan
November 12, 2025His sculptures, like his wonderful Elephant of 1929-1930, or his Chimpanzee of 1928, were often carved...

Into the Void: The Bicoastal Legacy of Weldon Kees
October 23, 2025This is very different stuff than the angst of later confessional poets such as Lowell and...
Madness and Mesmerism: Charles Deas Revisited
September 28, 2025Put as simply as possible, Matthews thought he was being tortured and his thoughts disrupted by...
Maryhill Museum of Art, One Hundred Miles East of Portland
September 11, 2025Mannequins in pale satins and gauzy tulle pose in a lofty attic whose roof has been...
Purity and Danger: The Many Lives of the Italian Renaissance
September 3, 2025More importantly, the good-for-you, vitamin-enriched Renaissance we know today is itself a fairly recent, and largely...
Stacey Steers’ Night Hunter
August 20, 2025Here, Gish finds herself amidst a riot of Freudian imagery – snakes, earthworms, and phallic blades...
Badlands Revisited
August 7, 2025Badlands was filmed on location in southern Colorado, and recently I finally made it to Pueblo,...
Denver’s Camera Obscura Gallery Closes
August 6, 2025In dramatic contrast to the wide-open, sleekly minimalist aesthetic of most modern art galleries, Camera Obscura’s...
A New Take on “Primitivism”? Man Ray, African Art, and The Modernist Lens
July 27, 2025There are other questions to ask as well. Can this be anything other than two white...






